Reading About Science and Living Like Scientists

• Readers brainstorm topics they are interested in learning about and shopping for books on that topic

• Readers learn to ask themselves after they read “What is the big thing I learned?”

• Readers learn how to synthesize information by starting with the big headings on the upper left of the page

• Readers can read aloud a small part of the text to their partners by practicing pronouncing hard words & reading it fluently
 

Expert Projects in a Content Area: Writing to Learn & to Teach About Science

• Writers learn that scientists write for many purposes

• Writers observe with categories such as color, texture, shape & size

• Writers hypothesize what they question & wonder about

• Writers will create an All About of their topic or a non fiction book about their topic

PUBLISH

The following topics will be discussed:

• To model & create multiplication stories

• To use the draw a picture strategy to solve problem

• To measure length using nonstandard units

• To estimate & measure length using an inch ruler; centimeter ruler

• To determine the area of a 2 dimensional surface

• Game Day

The topics to be discussed:

• How the force of gravity does affect objects?

• What are the structural parts of a plant?

• How do plants differ?

• What is a plant life cycle?
 

The Borough of Manhattan

• Vocabulary – Dutch, Times Square, Henry Hudson, skyscrapers